At least twice per week (always at 6am) for me.

that one person/the executive branch should not hold that much power and a direct vote for the president seems like an awful way to try to get a qualified person into office.

A significant portion of the right believe in a Unitary Executive and that is what they’ve been working towards for decades. They believe the president has the power to control the entire federal executive branch. They’ve taken SCOTUS through activist judges and regulatory capture and can now get the rulings they want.

Our current situation really is the culmination of almost 70 years of rightwing efforts. They’ve built pipelines to train and vet their bureaucrats and policy wonks. Their base is extremely mobilized and there are dozens of grassroots movements with varying interests. At the end of the day they all show up to vote for their guy(s) to push their party the direction they want. It’s worked and that party has mainstreamed extremism. If the nascent left is able to wake up and avert a crisis it’ll take decades of work to undo the damage.

I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.

Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here

Honestly I feel like the U.S. being a bit more isolationist is something most Americans (and a lot of other countries) would be ok with.

America doesn’t need to be the world police anymore, it needs to handle its own obvious internal issues and let NATO/UN have bigger teeth for a few decades. Maybe divert some of the the military budget to schools and healthcare or something.

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Then play hardball with them, get on board or get primaried by an opponent with the backing of the DNC.

It’s worked for the right, they’re terrified of their constituents.

I had a (white) friend who had a pretty nice one, rims and tinted windows, heated seats, it was a nice car for a Chrysler. He said he got stopped constantly for made up reasons but they would inevitably let him go when they realized it was a 30yr old nerd and not normally “kind of people who buy them.”

He ended up selling the car and getting a mustang.

prove to me by pointing to the specific source code that would prevent Proton from your private key password

You want them to point to code (that’s not publicly available) that prevents Proton from capturing credentials?

What a dumb hoop to tell someone to jump through. Do you expect someone to actually post a block of code? Would you even be able to read it?

Maybe they do, why so negative? Do you think breaking some hypothetical monopoly would be a bad thing or something? Is your last name Supply by chance?

A significant portion of the right believe in a Unitary Executive and that is what they’ve been working towards for decades. They believe the president has the power to control the entire federal executive branch. They’ve captured the judiciary branch and gotten the rulings they want.

Our current situation really is the culmination of almost 70 years of rightwing efforts. They turn out to school board meeting and ban books. Their base is extremely mobilized and there are dozens of grassroots movements with varying interests. At the end of the day they all show up to vote for their guy(s) to push their party the direction they want, it’s worked and that party has mainstreamed extremism.

I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.

Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here

It’s not true though they’re incorrect about the timeline.

I’ve noticed this a lot on lemmy. People state things as an objective fact that are just completely wrong. They start with a false assumption and built their ideas on that. People seem to have virtually no understanding of how the civic process works.

Where are you getting 100k? 8 million so far, close to 45 have debt.

You know genocide and fascism are different things right? Fascism has an actual meaning and it’s not “things I don’t like.”

“What part of rules for thee but not for me don’t you get?”

Functionally binary.

I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.

Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here

Directions unclear, now I’m in the hot sun in blue jeans, diving into the sand.

You know Maverick never got the sand out of those jeans, absolute psychopath.

Biden is doing Fascism already

I’m not sure he is.

Please define Fascism in the context that you believe Biden is doing. Be specific, I won’t engage with vaguery or hyperbole.

Oh noes he’s gonna tell! Report me too you dumb motherfucker.

And you all care so fucking much about Palestine now that it’s a convenient cudgel to beat someone with. You don’t care now and you didn’t care then you just want to score your little debate points from mommies basement.

Fucking waste of space if you care so much go do something about it because no U.S. president is going to do anything.

Yeah Sega was way ahead of its time. Dreamcasts had a built-in modem so you could go online and access (the very new) game services, it also included a browser able to access (at the time) most websites.